Gil King, Finalist for 2013 Dayton Literary Peace Prize

Gilbert King, who visits us tomorrow to discuss his 2013 Pulitzer-winning book, Devil in the Grove, which was just named a runner-up for the 2013 Dayton Literary Peace Prize.

More about King's visit:  http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/webpages4/programpages/vws.html#king

About the prize:  The Dayton Literary Peace Prize, inaugurated in 2006, is the first and only annual U.S. literary award recognizing the power of the written word to promote peace. The Dayton Literary Peace Prize invites nominations in adult fiction and nonfiction books published within the past year that have led readers to a better understanding of other cultures, peoples, religions, and political points of view. Both awards carry a $10,000 cash prize.

More:  http://www.daytonliterarypeaceprize.org/

The 2013 winners include Adam Johnson (fiction) for The Orphan Master's Son, which he presented at the Writers Institute in 2012:  http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/webpages4/archives/johnson_adam12.html

Also among the finalists is Louise Erdrich, who visited us back in 1987.

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Adam Johnson Wins Pulitzer for Fiction

Adam Johnson, who visited the Writers Institute in February 2012 has just received the 2013 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction for The Orphan Master's Son.

Here is a YouTube video from his visit:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZVAtO11X9A

More about Johnson's visit here last year:  http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/webpages4/archives/johnson_adam12.html

Nathan Englander, who visited us in March 2013, was one of two Pulitzer finalists.

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National Book Critics Circle Awards Announced

Recent visitor to the NYS Writers Institute Robert Caro wins the National Book Critics Circle Award for The Passage of Power, a new addition to his multivolume biography of LBJ. Other former guests of the Institute who received nominations include Adam Johnson, David Quammen and Kevin Young.

http://bookcritics.org/awards/

Picture:  Robert Caro

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